Chris Daniel sweeps up dirt and trash in an alley in downtown Muncie. The monthly downtown cleanup takes place on every third Saturday.

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With the majority of Ball State University students gone for the summer, Muncie-Delaware Clean and Beautiful (MDCB) found itself with a shortage of volunteers Saturday morning for its monthly downtown cleanup.

Only a handful of volunteers (a couple of board members and one of their pre-school daughters) met in the public parking lot at 9 a.m. between Doc's Music Hall and the High Street United Methodist Church.

In the parking lot, they found hundreds of cigarette butts, broken glass, beer bottle caps, a McDonald's sack and container of barbecue sauce, a Band-Aid, a Winterfresh gum ...